Also known as Pietraroja

Where: Benevento, Italy (41.3° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Paleontologia di Napoli

Primary reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):119-171 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127350: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 10.05.2012

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